Less then a month ago i recently built a new gaming rig with the specs as follows:
Aspire 600w Gaming tower
K8 Triton GA-K8N Ultra-SLI nForce4 sli MB with a AMD Atholon 64 3500+ chip
2GB's DDR400 ram
ATI Radion Sapphire PCI express video card
2 additional western digital HD's 120GB and 200GB
A Memorex 20x DVD burner
For about two weeks the system ran like a charm with no problems but recently the system would randomly shut down anywhere from 5 to 30 mins of game time. Games are the only thing that appear to cause this as i can leave the system running doing anything else. I have tryed all the ussual problem solvers including driver updates reinstalls etc. I also thought heat had somthing to do with it but according to my bios my system is far from its threshhold and runs at about 36 to 40c. Games that have had this full system crash include:
BattleField 2
World of Warcraft
Half-life 2
Im open to any suggestions as i can not figure out how any "game" would cause a full system crash let alone 3 instead of returning to my desktop.
A final note on this problem is a strange and loud sound coming from the case near a time a crash would happen. ive stripped it down unplugged and looked inside and can not locate the source. As ive said these restarts and noise are at the moment only appear to be linked to my gaming.
Aspire 600w Gaming tower
K8 Triton GA-K8N Ultra-SLI nForce4 sli MB with a AMD Atholon 64 3500+ chip
2GB's DDR400 ram
ATI Radion Sapphire PCI express video card
2 additional western digital HD's 120GB and 200GB
A Memorex 20x DVD burner
For about two weeks the system ran like a charm with no problems but recently the system would randomly shut down anywhere from 5 to 30 mins of game time. Games are the only thing that appear to cause this as i can leave the system running doing anything else. I have tryed all the ussual problem solvers including driver updates reinstalls etc. I also thought heat had somthing to do with it but according to my bios my system is far from its threshhold and runs at about 36 to 40c. Games that have had this full system crash include:
BattleField 2
World of Warcraft
Half-life 2
Im open to any suggestions as i can not figure out how any "game" would cause a full system crash let alone 3 instead of returning to my desktop.
A final note on this problem is a strange and loud sound coming from the case near a time a crash would happen. ive stripped it down unplugged and looked inside and can not locate the source. As ive said these restarts and noise are at the moment only appear to be linked to my gaming.